There have been rumblings for months about a new Pentax 645 based on the Sony 50MP 33x44mm chip that’s in the Phase One IQ250 and the Hasselblad H5D-50c. The buzz was that it would be cheap (for a medium format camera) and that Ricoh would put some marketing, service, and distribution wood behind the camera… [Read More]

Last night’s lunar eclipse occasioned a flurry of web traffic about how to set your camera to expose it correctly. I got to thinking – not always a good thing – about the problem, and the more I thought about it the harder it seemed. Let’s assume that you’re making an image and you know… [Read More]

When we photographers capture images, how much quality should we strive for? A lot depends on how much we know about the eventual use of the image. Why not just strive for the highest possible quality? Once you say that’s your goal, you’ve signed up for very expensive equipment, the use of a tripod almost… [Read More]

I’ve made some changes to the gallery section of the main web site. Actually, Robin Ward, who writes all the web site code and does all the heavy lifting, made the changes, and I am thankful to her. Anyway, the slit scans that had been in the New Work gallery are now in a gallery… [Read More]

My autohalftoning workflow has evolved to something like the following. Write some code Parameterize it. Find some parameters that produce interesting results Set up the software to do some ring-arounds Import the ring-arounds into Lightroom Delete all but the good ones Manually remove the orphaned sidecar files. The last step is not a lot of… [Read More]